PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Sam McCullen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Bailey Seung-Jin (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Seung-Jin has chosen Keith Ape - Psycho as his entrance music. Sam McCullen has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

McCullen
vs
Seung-Jin

195 cm
19
215 lbs
4 - 1 - 0

189 cm
17
217 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
KO power

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, Sam McCullen!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Bailey Seung-Jin!
The judges for this bout are Tatsuya Matsuyama, Ren Mimura and Yukihiro Yamamoto.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Seung-Jin takes one to the chin there.
Seung-Jin moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.

It looks like Sam McCullen has been cut.
Seung-Jin scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Seung-Jin misses with a right hand
and McCullen counters with a lovely shot to the body.
McCullen scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
McCullen swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Seung-Jin takes a jab on the nose. He smiles like he loves it and keeps coming.
Seung-Jin looks to score with a jab to the body but McCullen is just out of range.
Seung-Jin lands a really nice looking cross but McCullen seems unphased.
McCullen missing with a left hand there. Seung-Jin was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Seung-Jin throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Seung-Jin misses with a hook.
Seung-Jin throws a hook to the side of McCullen's head but McCullen sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Seung-Jin tries to clinch there but McCullen circles away.
McCullen staying out of range there.

That's one minute gone in the round.
McCullen throws out a loose jab but Seung-Jin uses good head movement to avoid it.
McCullen uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Seung-Jin.
Seung-Jin cracks McCullen with an open hand slap.
Seung-Jin swings and misses with a hook to the body.
A little feinted left hand from McCullen on the counter but he doesn't commit to it.
Seung-Jin throws a sloppy body shot
and McCullen connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Seung-Jin is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
McCullen ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
A looping hook to the body misses from McCullen. Seung-Jin does a little dance to reset his feet.
McCullen throws an off balance right hand
and Seung-Jin counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Seung-Jin takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.
McCullen scores with a decent looking hook.

Seung-Jin is rocked!

It looks like Bailey Seung-Jin has been cut.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Seung-Jin misses with a body shot.
Seung-Jin moves in looking to clinch but McCullen pushes him off.
Seung-Jin thows a left - swing and a miss!

That's two minutes gone in the round.
McCullen changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
McCullen looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
A telegraphed right hand from Seung-Jin misses the target.
Seung-Jin connects nicely with a jab. Noted by the judges no doubt.
McCullen with a nice cross.
Seung-Jin gets clipped by a big right hand and goes down spinning to the canvas! McCullen gets the back mount and begins to drop bombs on his rocked foe! Seung-Jin is too out of it to defend against the strikes and the referee jumps in to save him from the beatdown!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:33 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Sam McCullen!
Sam McCullen retains his light heavyweight title!
Bailey Seung-Jin was interviewed post fight and said 'I got caught, simple as. I am going to take an extended break from fighting to focus on my training. I'm only 17 and I may have been rushing into this world. I hope my teammate Sam keeps hold of the belt until I get back.'.